Luis
Aponte-Pares
Ph.D.,
Urban Planning, Columbia University
Associate
Professor, Community Planning
Office:
W-4-144-10
Phone
number: 617-287-7286
luis.aponte@umb.edu
Professor
Aponte-Pares has been teaching undergraduate courses in community
planning and community service management at CPCS since 1994.
His work includes development of collaborative projects with neighborhood
groups in the Boston Metropolitan area for the Center for Community
Planning. Professor Aponte-Parés is also the Director of
Latino Studies, a multi-disciplinary and inter-collegiate Program
of Studies. Research agenda focuses on (a) documenting attempts
made by Latino community development organizations in Boston and
New York City in envisioning and/or imagining their community
in space in the increasingly complex and discontinuous post-industrial
urban environments, and (b) research on issues of identity of
Latino gays.
Recent
Publications:
“Outside/In.
Transgressing Queer and Latino Boundaries.” In Mambo Montage:
The Latinization of New York . Edited by Arlene Dávila
and Agustín Laó. New York : Columbia University
Press. 2001.
“Appropriating
Place in Puerto Rican Barrios. Preserving Contemporary Urban Landscapes.”
In Preserving Cultural Landscapes in America . Edited by Arnold
R. Alanen and Robert Z. Melnick. Maryland : John Hopkins University
Press 2000. The book is the first arguing for the preservation
of cultural landscapes in the United States.
Evaluates
the following competencies:
•
Community Portraits
•
Historical Change
•
Exploring Community
•
Strategy & Proposal Development I and II
•
Community Impact Assessment
•
Planning Models and Theories
•
Exploring Culture
•
Crafting Art
•
Exploring Community
•
Reflecting Art
•
Human Resource Management
•
Management Theories and Practices
•
Community Development
Links:
http://www.temple.edu/tempress/titles/1352_reg_print.html
http://www.centropr.org/journal/jrnal16.html
http://www.plannersnetwork.org/htm/pub/archives/99.html
